Graphic
Communications Day – New England takes shape
Nancy Harhut, senior VP at Hill Holliday, will deliver keynote
at April 21 event
 Advertising
agency veteran Nancy Harhut will deliver a keynote
address at Graphic Communications Day – New England,
an afternoon celebration of print to be held on the third floor of the
Hynes Convention Center in Copley square in downtown Boston Thursday,
April 21. (More)
Postal
reform is in high gear
Extensive discussions about the national effort toward postal reform
has picked up in recent weeks between a broad industry coalition led
by Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation
(PIA/GATF), the Bush Administration, and Congress. (More)
Westborough,
Mass. quick printer installs KPG DirectPress 5034 DI System
Kwik Kopy Printing/AccelaGraphics of New England can
now compete directly with larger commercial printers with the recent
installation of the Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) DirectPress 5034
DI System at its Westborough, Mass., location. (More)
Springfield
Printing bolsters sales team with hiring
Springfield Printing Corp. has hired Troy Harney for
the company’s outside sales team. Harney, who has nearly 20 years
of commercial printing sales will cover parts of Massachusetts and the
Southern New Hampshire territory. (More)
Powerful
marketing strategies that produce sales
By John Graham
The retail harvest of Thanksgiving week 2004 was less than bountiful
for Wal-Mart. While other retailers were upbeat, Wal-Mart’s sales
were “disappointing” the last week of November and traffic
was “low” on infamous Black Friday. (More)
Define
needed changes in print buying before moving
to e-procurement
By Denise A. G. McConnell
Purchasing agents familiar with the terrain of electronic procurement
for office supplies can be lulled into complacently thinking that printing
can be ordered the same way. However, printing’s complexity, with
its own set of assumptions and nomenclature, requires a fresh approach
to realize maximum hard and soft dollar savings. (More)
Sheppard
Envelope Company blends unique products with a can-do attitude
By John Scibelli
These are exciting times for the Sheppard Envelope Company,
a privately-held envelope manufacturing and packaging firm located in
Auburn, Mass., just a few hundred feet over the Worcester city line,
which was the home of the mass-produced envelope more than a century
ago and today still boasts several envelope manufacturers. (More)
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in printed version
Everyone
should know the value of time & materials
By Jack J. Epstein
Most people in your company probably know the price of a gallon of milk,
a sheet of three-quarter inch plywood, their monthly home utility bills
and the hourly rate of their automobile mechanic. But can they even
guess the value of a contract proof, a 40-inch plate, 1,000 sheets of
coated stock, a can of ink, the hourly rate of a folding machine or
the company’s monthly electric bill? If you want to be serious
about cost saving initiatives, put together a laundry list of your common
inventory items and incorporate it in your orientation package and procedure
books. More importantly, take the time to go over it with all employees
in a classroom environment.
Electricity
deregulation in Massachusetts means changes are on the way
By John J. Scibelli and Douglas C. Smith
Customers of Massachusetts’ major electric utilities have been
able to shop for alternative suppliers since 1998, while the utilities
have continued to provide service at a relatively predictable price.
That will change beginning March 1. The price will be determined by
competition in the energy marketplace, and it will change more often.
Many businesses across the state have prepared for this significant
change by finding competitive power suppliers and in some cases signing
long-term contracts.
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